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as in to freeze
to become physically firm or solid
the surface of the pond congealed after several days of frigid temperatures
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as in to gel
to turn from a liquid into a substance resembling jelly
the gravy had already started to congeal by the time the waiter served our dinners
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Recent Examples of congeal
The film dramatically recreates many terrifyingly visceral details of war: blood congealing on faces facing a campfire, birds devouring the eyes of a corpse, a woman walking into a fire that would consume her.
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Some thunderstorms may initially develop separately from one another only to ultimately congeal and form powerful lines that deliver greater wind damage.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 26 June 2024
Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into demands for action.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 5 June 2024
Mike McNally: Amy was essentially … in a pile of blood that was beginning to congeal under her left side.
—Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 5 May 2024
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Joan MacDonald, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
Some thunderstorms may initially develop separately from one another only to ultimately congeal and form powerful lines that deliver greater wind damage.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 26 June 2024
Within hours of a jury finding Mr. Trump guilty last week, the anger congealed into demands for action.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 5 June 2024
Mike McNally: Amy was essentially … in a pile of blood that was beginning to congeal under her left side.
—Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 5 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for congeal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for congeal
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Many Northwest Indiana school districts will shift to an e-learning day on Tuesday due to freezing temperatures and dangerous wind chills.—
Post-Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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Across the country, including in the New York area, temperatures plummeted below freezing on Monday.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
20 Jan. 2025
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Within a few years, the Hawks gelled into a studied, tight backing band.—
Randall Roberts,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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There’s a sizable B-plot featuring Jodie Turner-Smith’s Gracie — a Bahamian woman suffering a crisis of faith regarding how best to abide by her grandmother’s African religion — that never gels with the bright white A-story.—
Erin Strecker,
IndieWire,
17 Dec. 2024
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These processes need to be sufficiently hardened by providers to prevent trivial abuse by these attackers and to maintain the security benefits of using passkeys.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes,
21 Jan. 2025
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Let the wax harden before popping the waxy dryer lint firestarters out of the carton.—
Rabekah Henderson,
Southern Living,
19 Jan. 2025
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Spritzing the end of the thread with hairspray will stiffen it just enough to be able to be threaded more easily, but keeps enough flexibility to be used.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
5 Jan. 2025
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Restrictive cardiomyopathy: Another rare type, this causes heart muscles to stiffen, which in turn prevents the heart’s ventricles from filling with enough blood to pump throughout the body.—
Elizabeth Millard,
TIME,
18 Dec. 2024
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Antonio ended up in intensive care at Dell’s Children's Medical Center and was gaunt, his blood coagulating.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American-Statesman,
24 Nov. 2024
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As a preventative course of treatment, people with the blood disorder receive weekly injections of factor IX to enable their blood to coagulate, said GOSH.—
Julia O'Driscoll, The Week UK,
theweek,
27 June 2024
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The endlessly charming ensemble has really jelled together and bonded with the material, making for terrific chemistry and energy.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Dec. 2024
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But this team has every opportunity to jell into something cohesive and sneak its way back to respectability.—
Nick Suss,
The Tennessean,
29 Oct. 2024
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“Congeal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/congeal. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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